Fragments of Noir

Monday, 27 April 2026

Sunday, 26 April 2026

Odd Man Out

I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though i have all faiths so that I could remove mountains and have not charity. I am nothing.

Odd Man Out

1947

My mother's crime scene to me is all crime scenes. The crime scene to me is - it's primal. Almost oedipal. The moment of the discovery of her body is in many ways the moment of my birth, because it's the genesis of my detectives obsessions with the murders that they ultimately become consumed by.

James Ellroy

Ellroy outside the restaurant where his mother was last seen alive in 1958

https://unsolved.com/gallery/jean-ellroy/

Saturday, 25 April 2026

Dark Reflections #47

Panique

Memento

House By the River

Taxi Driver

Out of the Past

Red Rock West

Lost Weekend

The Getaway (1972)

The Good German

Black Swan

Touch of Evil

Sopranos

Human Desire

Nightcrawler

Narrow Margin (1952)

Should Care

I Should Care
(Cahn/Stordahl/Weston)
Hank Mobley

Friday, 24 April 2026

No Alternative

Criminals like Lime and his cohorts are not selling drugs or stealing fine pieces of art like in other film Noirs, but they are stealing and selling medicine. The people of Vienna to buy from them, for there is no alternative. Vienna is a blackened landscape of cobblestone streets, scorched brick, and secret passageways. The shadow of World War II is ever looming on the minds of those in The Third Man.

Colin Parker
Medium.com
2021

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Tamara Knight Parker
reblogged via Spyguyslifestyles.com

All Gone to Bed

After all the jacks are in their boxes
And the clowns have all gone to bed
You can hear happiness staggering on down the street
Footprints dressed in red
And the wind whispers "Mary"

The Wind Cries Mary
(Hendrix)
Jimi Hendrix

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